TR EMERITUS

Further to this, where I, tongue-in-cheek, suggested that the PAP administration should follow what Auckland in NZ is doing (paying the poor to leave the city) and pay the elderly poor, among others, to leave S’pore. After all, the cost of living is lower in neighbouring countries. A reader (see below) provides data which... 

I grew up in the 70s, somewhere in Geylang, where kampungs existed then. During then, we did not have Internet or posh buildings and nice BTOs. Life was simple, not hard, but everyone was happy. We knew every neighbour, everyone had their doors open through the day, the kids around around the kampung. We played catching,... 

As the example of Brexit has shown, economic inequality causes social inequality and which can tear the country apart, as has UK been politically, and soon physically when Scotland and Northern Ireland might vote to leave the UK. Inequalities have the effect of turning people angry and resentful at their lost opportunities,...